Countries that don't exist: selected nonfiction
"Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis Borges for their distinctive blend of metafictional play and philosophical thought experiment. Like Borges, Krzhizhanovsky also wrote dazzlingly unconventional essayistic pieces as a slippery extension of his fictional project. Countries That D…
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- Full title :Countries that don't exist : selected nonfiction / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; edited by Jacob Emery and Alexander Spektor.
Summary
"Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis Borges for their distinctive blend of metafictional play and philosophical thought experiment. Like Borges, Krzhizhanovsky also wrote dazzlingly unconventional essayistic pieces as a slippery extension of his fictional project. Countries That Don't Exist showcases a selection of Krzhizhanovsky's exceptional nonfiction, which spans a dizzying range of genres and voices. Playful fantasies dwelling in the borderlands between essay and fable, metaphysical conversations and probing literary criticism, philosophical essays and wartime memoirs-in all these modes Krzhizhanovsky's writing bristles with idiosyncratic erudition and a starkly original vision of literary creation. Krzhizhanovsky comes across as a strange voice from another past, at once utterly novel yet unmistakably belonging to the high modernist 1920s and 1930s. Taken together, these works present to the English-speaking world a fresh aspect of a newly canonized author"--
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- Publication Date:2022
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231554527, 0231554524
- oclc:on1263247183
- LC Classification:PG3476.K782
- Dewey Decimal:891.78/4208
Table of Contents
Love as a Method of Cognition -- Idea and Word -- Argo and Ergo -- A Philosopheme of the Theater -- A Collection of Seconds -- The Poetics of Titles -- Countries That Don't Exist -- Edgar Allan Poe: 90 Years After His Death -- Shaw and the Bookshelf -- The Dramaturgy of the Chessboard -- Moscow in the First Years of the War -- A History of Unwritten Literature -- A History of Hyperbole -- Krzhizhanovsky's Writer's Notebooks.
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